transport

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♦♦ trans|port (transports transporting transported)
The noun is pronounced /tr'ænspɔːrt/ The verb is pronounced /trænsp'ɔːrt/
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Transport refers to any vehicle that you can travel in or carry goods in. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use transportation)
Have you got your own transport?...
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Transport is a system for taking people or goods from one place to another, for example using buses or trains. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use transportation)
The extra money could be spent on improving public transport...
3 [N-UNCOUNT]
Transport is the activity of taking goods or people from one place to another in a vehicle. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use transportation)
Local production virtually eliminates transport costs.
4 [VERB] V n, V n prep/adv
To transport people or goods somewhere is to take them from one place to another in a vehicle.
There's no petrol, so it's very difficult to transport goods...
They use tankers to transport the oil to Los Angeles...
5 [VERB] be V-ed prep/adv, V n prep/adv
If you say that you are transported to another place or time, you mean that something causes you to feel that you are living in the other place or at the other time. (mainly LITERARY)
Dr Drummond felt that he had been transported into a world that rivalled the Arabian Nights...
This delightful musical comedy transports the audience to the innocent days of 1950s America.

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